Brussels, 20/05/2008 (Agence Europe) - According to the Polish press, the Polish government under Donald Tusk has chosen Janusz Lewandowski, MEP (EPP-ED) as the Polish candidate for one of the top four posts to be attributed after entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (President of the European Council, High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy) and/or after the European elections in June 2009 (President of the European Commission, President of the European Parliament). The Polish daily, Dziennik, reports that the government has prepared two scenarios. In the best of cases, Mr Lewandowski would become president of the Commission. If this is not possible, he will in any case replace Danuta Hübner as the Polish member of the future Commission (2009-2014), preferably for budget or trade policy. “The decision that Mr Lewandowski will replace Ms Hübner at the Commission has already been taken”, states a key member of Prime Minister Tusk's Civic Platform Party (PO).
Other Polish figures have already been cited as possible candidates for one of the posts, such as the former prime minister and current MEP, Jerzy Buzek (EPP-ED), who could share the mandate of the future EP president with a Socialist. The former president, Alexander Kwasniewski, has requested that at least one of the four EU leaders be from one of the new member states from Central and Eastern Europe. Last week, during a seminar in Berlin, Mr Kwasniewski pointed out that he would be candidate for the post of first president of the European Council, Berliner Zeitung reports. (H.B.)